China Sticking to One-Child Policy



A. To the west and southwest of China there are the Himalayan mountains, and big deserts block the easy movement of people. To the Southeast big jungles separate China from Southeast Asian countries. To the north is the hard to pass through Gobi Desert. To the east, the huge Pacific Ocean. Long distances and huge mountains separate China from Europe, the Middle East, and India. This isolation contributed to the Chinese belief that China was the center of the Earth.

B. In its early history the Chinese believed it was the cultural center of the world. Zhong guo, which we pronounce “China” in English, means Middle Kingdom or Central Kingdom. The Chinese thought of their culture as a culture that anyone could join. The name Middle Kingdom also gets it meaning from a time when the Chinese had little knowledge of the world around them and believed that China was located at the center of the world. Similar to the belief held in Europe that the world was flat, until the discovery of the “new world”.

C. China has had 2 capital cities today the capital is Bei-jing (Bei-ping) which means Northern Capital, for a short time the capital was the city of Nan-jing which means southern capital. The Great Wall a part of China’s geography was completed during the Qin Dynasty 221-206 C. E. when pieces of the wall existing from earlier periods were connected. Since the Chinese, who settled around the Yellow River, had no mountains to their north, it was the direction from which they were invaded. The great wall served as a defense against the invaders.

D. One day a young man took a journey from a town in southern China to a town in northern China. These two towns were separated by the largest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas. As he traveled across China he notices everything changed: the climate, many languages, many styles of dress, the fruit on the trees, and flowers.

Read Together Instructions: Whether you are reading A, B, C, OR D you must connect the main ideas from your reading to the circle below, then answer the question that follows:

Describe

China and its

Geography

Would you want to live in China based on the information in the readings above? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ASSIGNMENT: Make believe you are a member of team family fix it from AMERICA.

You are being sent to China to find a way to STOP THE ONE CHILD POLICY!!!

You need to report back to the MAYOR OF NEW YORK.

WRITE A BRIEF LETTER BELOW TO THE MAYOR SPONGE BOB.

FINISH THE FOLLOWING STEPS BEFORE WRITING THE LETTER.

1. Be sure to base your work on what we went over today.

2. Write your letter and address it to Mr. Bob, hopefully you will be able to find a way to make a fair family policy in China. GOOD LUCK Agent X.

WRITE YOUR LETTER BELOW PLEASE BE AS CREATIVE AS POSSIBLE. (THANK YOU.)

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Nobody |Some People |Some More People| Even more people| Wow that a lot of

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MAP 2

MAP 1

China is Sticking to One-Child Policy

China's one child policy has been in effect since the late 1970s and is still in effect today. The policy limits couples that live in cities to one child and families that live in the countryside to have two children. China’s government says the country needs this law in order to control the population. China’s population is about 1.3 billion people making it 3 times the amount of people in the United States. China’s government says the one child policy has helped prevent 400 million births, in order to slow down the growth of China’s population. If families have twins they have to pay higher taxes, if they can’t afford it they can give their children up for adoption. By ALEXA OLESENTuesday, January 23, 2007; 11:17 PM

1. Which part of China is most populated East or West? _________________

2. Based on MAP 2, what are 2 parts of China’s geography that would make it hard to live in the west? ALSO GIVE ONE REASON WHY.

_______________ Why?

_______________ Why?

3. What is the one Child Policy? And Why do you think China has this policy? (use the maps to help you answer)

Based on this map how would you compare the size of China to the size of the United States?

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